Month: February 2023

Message to Moscow: Biden’s surprise wartime visit to Kyiv EU

The president of the United States has visited Kyiv ahead of the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine. We ask about the drama and the logistics of a visit kept secret until Joe Biden was on the ground, one punctuated by air raid sirens. How different from a year ago when Biden was derided on the world stage over the messy US pullout from Afghanistan? What standing does the US have today?

Yana, a Russian exile in Paris: ‘Russia’s destiny is everyone’s business’ EU

Arrested during a protest against the war in Ukraine in March 2022, Yana, a 35-year-old Russian executive, decided to flee her home town of Moscow. Since her arrival in Paris in June, she has been trying to deal with the administration involved in moving country, while sharing the message of critics of Vladimir Putin’s regime.

Kosovo’s PM ‘very optimistic’ that agreement with Serbia could happen this year EU

FRANCE 24 spoke to Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti, as Kosovo celebrates 15 years of independence. Kurti is due to meet Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Brussels on February 27 and said he was “very optimistic” that an agreement leading to full normalisation between the two countries could happen “this year”. He regretted that relations between Kosovo and Serbia “are not normal” and claimed Belgrade isolated itself by “not delinking (…) from the Kremlin”.